Rick Grenell Secretly Visited Athens BEFORE The Erdogan-Mitsotakis Summit!!

ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ

Is Grenell continuing the – COMPLETELY UNFAIR – American policy and pushing Mitsotakis to sell out Greek sovereign rights under the unconscionable cover of “equitable distribution”? What do you think will happen when the US administration pushes for either a submission of this case to an international court (The Hague or Hamburg), if Greece has already accepted reduced sovereignty (EEZ) of its islands in official agreements with Italy and Egypt? 

By Nick Stamatakis

In a stunning revelation, the respected analyst and Editor of “Estia,” Manolis Kottakis, revealed today that Rick Grenell, whose background includes wide-ranging diplomatic and intelligence experience closely tied to President Trump, secretly visited Athens a few days before the Erdogan-Mitsotakis summit in Ankara and met with government officials, possibly including Mitsotakis himself!! (link here for this very important article – titled “The Prespa Agreement of the Aegean is coming, edited in America”)...

The whole affair raises a serious institutional question: if high-level diplomatic consultations were underway at such a critical juncture, what framework was being discussed, and under what legal logic?

The core issue is not diplomacy per se. Dialogue between Greece and Turkey is neither abnormal nor undesirable. The question is methodological: what legal architecture is guiding the emerging framework?

For many years, the language surrounding the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean has subtly shifted. We hear repeated references to: “structured dialogue”, “equitable distribution”, “creative arbitration” or “comprehensive settlement.”

In international maritime law, however, these are not abstract slogans. They have precise meanings.

Under UNCLOS and established jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and arbitral tribunals, maritime delimitation follows a structured three-stage method:

1. Establish a provisional equidistance (median) line.

2. Consider relevant circumstances that may justify limited adjustment.

3. Conduct a proportionality test to avoid manifest disproportionality.

Islands — except for uninhabitable rocks under Article 121(3) — generate full maritime zones: territorial sea, EEZ, and continental shelf.

PHOTO: Rick Grenell socializes with Christos Marafatsos and other “Greek Americans For Trump”.  Let’s see how much these political activists will help convince Grenell and the American establishment to apply to Greece the same principles they are so loudly supporting for Taiwan and the Philippines!! 

Crucially, equidistance is not optional rhetoric. It is the starting presumption.

When the United States delineates maritime boundaries with Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico, or with the Bahamas and Cuba in the Caribbean, median-line principles dominate the framework. When Washington supports the Philippines in the South China Sea, it invokes international legal rulings against expansive maritime claims.

If islands generate EEZs in the Caribbean and Pacific, they generate EEZs in the Aegean. If equidistance is a starting principle elsewhere, it must be so here as well.

Yet here is how sneakily Mitsotakis ia trying to fulfill the American Deep State “directives”:

On June 9, 2020, in the EEZ delimitation agreement between Greece and Italy, the Mitsotakis government — through then–Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias — accepted that the Diapontia Islands northwest of Corfu would have reduced effect in the determination of the Exclusive Economic Zone. For the first time in practice, Greece conceded that fully sovereign Greek islands do not automatically generate full maritime entitlements.

How many Greek citizens are aware of this?

On August 6, 2020, in the EEZ agreement between Greece and Egypt, the same government accepted that Crete — the largest island of Greece — would also have reduced effect in the delimitation of maritime zones.

How many Greeks understand what that precedent means?

What do you think will happen when the US administration pushes for either a submission of this case to an international court (The Hague or Hamburg), if Greece has already accepted reduced sovereignty of its islands in official agreements with Italy and Egypt? 

There is one solution to this question: the creation of a new political party (possibly under Antonis Samaras) that expresses the traditional right wing of the New Democracy party, which will cooperate in a “National Unity Government” with the party Maria Karystianou plans to announce, and others. For most Greeks this is a time of national emergency… Somebody has to tell the correct message to these arrogant and self-serving actors in DC that “Greece is a stable and faithful ally, but if you do not show respect, you will not be respected either!! The country, much like its shipowners did and still do, has many other open options…  

February 16, 2026, n.stamatakis@aol.com   www.helleniscope.com

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